Canada with love [antikvár]

PREFACE The making of this book was an act of love Those of us who worked together to produce it offered it as a special tribute to celebrate Canada's 115th birthday and the patriation of the Constitution of Canada. This edition is a special anniversary reprint. The photographs were selected from those submitted to a nationwide competition publicized by Photo Life magazine in an article by Inga Lubbock entitled "Searching for the Canadian Landscape." More than 500 photographers, most of them amateurs, sent images of places, usually close to home, that had a special appeal for them. The grand-prize winner, Helga Pattison Dauer, captured the top award for her moody evocation of a frosty November morning on her neighbour's farm outside Calgary, Alberta (plate 29). Mildred McPhee won second prize for a glorious photograph of Lombardy poplars on her farm at Chilliwack, British Columbia (plate 15). Fraser Clark, the third-prize winner, was living on Mary Island in the mouth of Pender Harbour when he made his remarkable photograph of Malaspina Strait, which flows between Vancouver Island and mainland British Columbia (plate 2). Michael Gilbert, whose image was selected for the jacket and theme photograph, recorded a moment of magic realism on the shore of Georgian Bay where he spends his summers (plate 1). Some of the thirty-five Canadian photographers whose work is represented in this collection are well known. Most had never before had their pictures published. Their work had been hitherto unknown, except to family and a circle of friends. Together, their fifty photographs provide a graphically new and unforgettable look at a land we call Canada. Special thanks are extended to the staff of Herzig Somerville Limited, Cooper & Beatty Limited, and The Bryant Press Limited, who lavished exquisite care on the printing, typesetting and binding of this book. To everyone who worked so gracefully under pressure to make the production of Canada With Love/Canada Avec Amour hoih possible and a pleasure my affectionate appreciation. This book is dedicated to the memory of my mother and my father, who first revealed to me the wonder of love Lorraine Monk